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Creating color harmonies

Creating color harmonies

- [Tony] Hi, and welcome to another Design Tools Weekly with me, Tony Harmer. Whatever your choice of software and tools, color is important to all of us. And when we're finding colors that work well together, color harmonies are something we can rely on. After all, they are based on centuries of research. Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Capture, and Affinity Designer have tools, modules, and panels that help with selecting colors that work well together, and there are various web tools too. But it's Adobe's Color website that offers what I think is the best all-around service, and you don't have to have an Adobe account to use it either. So here I am, on the site, and I'm at the Color Wheel, the first of the tabs here. And basically, you begin with a base color. So you could, for example, drop in a hex code here, or you could enter values using the sliders. And you can change the sliders using this dropdown just here. Once you have a base color, you can either go around manually separating…

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